I's using AngularJS and AngularJS bootstrap in my page. I have a date picker directive that looks like this:

    <div class="form-group {{dateStatus.class}}">
        <p class="input-group">
            <input type="text" id="inpDate" class="form-control" 
                   datepicker-popup="dd-MMMM-yyyy" ng-model="task.date" 
                   is-open="datePickerStatus.isOpen" min-date="minDate" 
                   datepicker-options="dateOptions" ng-required="true" 
                   close-text="Close" placeholder="Due date" 
                   ng-change="checkDateValidity()"
            />
            <span class="input-group-btn">
                <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" 
                        ng-click="openDatePicker($event)"
                >
                    <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>
                </button>
            </span>
        </p>
    </div>

To validate the date input, in my controller I have the following function:

        $scope.checkDateValidity = function(){
        var date,
            isValid,
            taskDate;
        taskDate = $scope.task.date;
        date = new Date(taskDate);
        isValid = !isNaN(date);
        if(isValid) {
            $scope.addButtonState.isOk = true;
            $scope.dateStatus.class = '';
        }
        else{
            $scope.addButtonState.isOk = false;
            $scope.dateStatus.class = 'has-error';
        }
    }

everything works fine for checking if the date inserted is valid, but the problem is that when the date input is left blank(or changed from a valid state to blank) I want it to be acceptable too, but since both empty input and invalid date are undefinedI don't know how to declare between the cases.

I also thought of reading the input text directly like this:

document.getElementById('inpDate').value

but the ng-change is fired when the value is changed and I'm left with the previous value which is useless now...

thanks for your time and response.

I's using AngularJS and AngularJS bootstrap in my page. I have a date picker directive that looks like this:

    <div class="form-group {{dateStatus.class}}">
        <p class="input-group">
            <input type="text" id="inpDate" class="form-control" 
                   datepicker-popup="dd-MMMM-yyyy" ng-model="task.date" 
                   is-open="datePickerStatus.isOpen" min-date="minDate" 
                   datepicker-options="dateOptions" ng-required="true" 
                   close-text="Close" placeholder="Due date" 
                   ng-change="checkDateValidity()"
            />
            <span class="input-group-btn">
                <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" 
                        ng-click="openDatePicker($event)"
                >
                    <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>
                </button>
            </span>
        </p>
    </div>

To validate the date input, in my controller I have the following function:

        $scope.checkDateValidity = function(){
        var date,
            isValid,
            taskDate;
        taskDate = $scope.task.date;
        date = new Date(taskDate);
        isValid = !isNaN(date);
        if(isValid) {
            $scope.addButtonState.isOk = true;
            $scope.dateStatus.class = '';
        }
        else{
            $scope.addButtonState.isOk = false;
            $scope.dateStatus.class = 'has-error';
        }
    }

everything works fine for checking if the date inserted is valid, but the problem is that when the date input is left blank(or changed from a valid state to blank) I want it to be acceptable too, but since both empty input and invalid date are undefinedI don't know how to declare between the cases.

I also thought of reading the input text directly like this:

document.getElementById('inpDate').value

but the ng-change is fired when the value is changed and I'm left with the previous value which is useless now...

thanks for your time and response.

• javascript
• angularjs
• datepicker
• angular-ui-bootstrap
• angularjs-ng-change

3 Answers 3

A much better way of validating is using a directive to add a Validation Rule.

.directive("validateDate", function() {
     return {
         require: 'ngModel',
         link: function(scope, elm, attrs, ctrl) {
             ctrl.$validators.validateDate = function(modelValue, viewValue) {
                 if(!isNaN(modelValue) || ctrl.$isEmpty(modelValue)){
                     return true;
                 }
                 return false;
             };
         }
     };
 })

then you just need to add validate-date to the input tag and the validation will mark the input as valid if it is !isNaN (when the date is a number OR is empty)

You can easily validate #inpDate value by binding validator callback to both change and keyup events, then when your callback triggered you can check the validity of your input.

$timeout(function(){        
    angular
        .element(document.getElementById('inpDate'))
        .bind('keyup change', function(){
            var inputValue,
                customDate,
                isValid;

            inputValue = this.value;
            if(inputValue != ''){
                customDate = new Date(inputValue);
                isValid = !isNaN(customDate);

                if(isValid){
                    console.log('Valid');
                    // do something
                }
                else{
                    console.log('Invalid');
                    // do something else
                }
            }
            else{
                console.log('Empty');
                // do something else
            }
        });
}, 400);

Please make sure that your have injected $timeout in your controller.

If you want to validate like that, then you can use

if(document.getElementById('inpDate').value === "" ){
            $scope.addButtonState.isOk = true;
            $scope.dateStatus.class = '';
}

this at the beginning of the $scope.checkDateValidity function